Nice video on your vSphere home lab. I just wanted to mention that you may be able to download an updated BIOS from Sony which will allow you to enable VT. I ran into the same problem trying to run a MAC OSX VM on my Sony Vaio with a P8600 (requires hardware VT to be enabled) and after a little bit of looking around discovered that Sony had released an updated version of the BIOS. Of course this may not hold true for all models (mine is a VGN-SR190), but may be worth checking out.

Hi david,
NIce lab. I have a question. I dont have physical EsX servers. all i need to do is to run esx in vmware workstation.. will it be possible to practice all the labs same as the real labs in workstation and also will migration of VM supports in workstation.bcoz no iSCSI or NFS i have only local storage…

Hi David Thanks for your sharing.
1.I would like to know that can we practice to create a virtual machine on the Esxi4 server which one is installed in VMware workstation..because it was showing some error when i tried before. and
2.can we use the open filer to check the fail over cluster feature in Windows Hyperv environment.

Hi David,
My query is regarding Bare Metal ESXi installation.
Suppose I have a 250GB harddisk and i want to install as a Bare Metal installation on my pc..is there any provision to give ESXi only 50GB of that total space, so that other space can be allocated to virtual machines…
or how is it, as its confusing me a lot….

I have a question, I have two physical desktops that I would like to install vsphere 5 on. if I use one server and install VMware workstation on it I understand I can nest VM’s and install ESXi on another host but do you think I can add the second physical host to the VMware workstation environment?

Anonymous,
To add the second host, you they would just talk over the network. One server could run Workstation with nested ESXi VMs and vCenter and DNS/AD. The other server could run ESXi directly on it where you could get better performance for any VMs you run inside.
Hope that helps!
Thanks for visiting,
David

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